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most citedThe Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

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53 papers

physics.ins-det2022★ 39 cited

SLAC Microresonator RF (SMuRF) Electronics: A tone-tracking readout system for superconducting microwave resonator arrays

Cyndia Yu, Zeeshan Ahmed, Josef C. Frisch +22

We describe the newest generation of the SLAC Microresonator RF (SMuRF) electronics, a warm digital control and readout system for microwave-frequency resonator-based cryogenic det…

physics.ins-det2022

Phase Drift Monitoring for Tone Tracking Readout of Superconducting Microwave Resonators

Max Silva-Feaver, Zeeshan Ahmed, Kam Arnold +5

A number of modern millimeter, sub-millimeter, and far-infrared detectors are read out using superconducting microwave (1-10GHz) resonators. The main detector technologies are Tran…

astro-ph.IM2022

The Simons Observatory: Complex Impedance Measurements for a Full Focal-Plane Module

Jack Lashner, Joseph Seibert, Max Silva-Feaver +11

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a ground based Cosmic Microwave Background experiment that will be deployed to the Atacama Desert in Chile. SO will field over 60,000 transition edge…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 50 cited

The Simons Observatory microwave SQUID multiplexing detector module design

Heather McCarrick, Erin Healy, Zeeshan Ahmed +56

Advances in cosmic microwave background (CMB) science depend on increasing the number of sensitive detectors observing the sky. New instruments deploy large arrays of superconducti…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 4 cited

Polarization Calibration of the BICEP3 CMB polarimeter at the South Pole

J. Cornelison, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +84

The BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter is a small-aperture refracting telescope located at the South Pole and is specifically designed to search for the possible signature of inflationary grav…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 8 cited

The Simons Observatory: Magnetic Sensitivity Measurements of Microwave SQUID Multiplexers

Eve M. Vavagiakis, Zeeshan Ahmed, Aamir Ali +30

The Simons Observatory (SO) will be a cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment with three small-aperture telescopes and one large-aperture telescope, which will observe…